Expansión (Spanish newspaper)

Spanish economic and business newspaper

ExpansiónType| Business newspaper

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Format| Tabloid
Owner(s)| Grupo Recoletos
Publisher| Unidad Editorial
Founded| 1 May 1986; 39 years ago (1986-05-01)
Language| Spanish
Headquarters| Madrid
Circulation| 55,971 (2012)
Sister newspapers| El Mundo
Marca
Website| expansion.com

Expansión is a Spanish economic and business newspaper published in Madrid, Spain.

## History and profile

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Expansión was established in May 1986.[1][2] The paper is published in tabloid format[2] and is owned by Unidad Editorial, which is in turn controlled by RCS MediaGroup.[3][4] Its sister newspapers are El Mundo and Marca.[4][5]

Expansión used to be part of the British group Pearson,[6] which had a share of 39% in the paper during the late 1990s.[7] During this period, the publisher was Ârea Editorial.[2]

The headquarters of Expansión is in Madrid. The paper was awarded by the Society for News Design (SND) the World's Best Designed Newspaper™ for 1994.[8] It celebrated its 25th anniversary in September 2011 with an event led by Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia.[9]

## Circulation and readership

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The circulation of Expansión was 39,047 copies in 1994.[2] The paper had a circulation of 52,645 copies in 2001.[10] Its circulation fell to 48,108 copies in 2002.[5] In 2003 the circulation of the paper was 48,000 copies.[11] The paper had a circulation of 47,577 copies in 2005.[12]

Based on the findings of the European Business Readership Survey the paper had 13,047 readers per issue in 2006.[13] The 2008 circulation of the paper was 50,128 copies, making it the most read business newspaper in the country.[3] The OJD certified circulation of the paper was 55,971 copies in 2012.[14]

## References

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1. ^ "Expansión (Spain)". Publicitas. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
2. ^ a b c d Jose L. Alvarez; Carmelo Mazza; Jordi Mur (October 1999). "The management publishing industry in Europe" (PDF). University of Navarra. Archived from the original (Occasional Paper No:99/4) on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
3. ^ a b Alan Albarran (10 September 2009). Handbook of Spanish Language Media. Routledge. p. 25\. ISBN 978-1-135-85430-0. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
4. ^ a b "Daily Press" (PDF). Unidad Editorial. December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
5. ^ a b David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Dutch Media Authority. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
6. ^ Robert G. Picard, ed. (2002). Media Firms: Structures, Operations, and Performance. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 61\. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014.
7. ^ Denis McQuail; Karen Siune, eds. (1998). Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce. SAGE Publications. p. 12\. ISBN 978-0-7619-5939-7. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
8. ^ "World's Best-Designed winners". Society for News Design. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
9. ^ Anniversary Europress. 8 September 2011.
10. ^ Jagdeep S. Chhokar; Felix C. Brodbeck; Robert J. House (17 June 2013). Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies. Routledge. p. 644\. ISBN 978-1-135-70380-6. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
11. ^ "Financial Newspapers" (PDF). SFN Flash. 7 (1). 7 January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
12. ^ Ramón Salaverría (2007). The Spanish Media Landscape (Book chapter). Intellect Books Ltd. p. 279\. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
13. ^ Craig Carroll (1 September 2010). Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting Within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets. Routledge. p. 177\. ISBN 978-1-135-25244-1. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
14. ^ "MD Spain sees circulation rise". money-marketuk. 31 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013.

## External links

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* Expansión – official website